By Camilla Veras Mota BBC News Brasil, São Paulo “It still affects me. To this day, whenever I go out, I catch myself looking for places to hide and for escape routes, in case something happens.” Yanne Cezário is a survivor of a 2019 school shooting in the Brazilian city of Suzano. The assault on […]

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By Mattea Bubalo and Laura Gozzi BBC News A suspect has been arrested after eight people were killed and at least 14 injured in Serbia’s second mass shooting this week. The gunman fired an automatic weapon from a moving vehicle near a village 60km (37 miles) south of Belgrade. The interior ministry said the suspect […]

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by Cheyanne M. Daniels THE HILL The California Reparations Task Force will vote on a series of proposals this weekend that could see descendants of slavery living in the state each receive up to $1.2 million. In a series of documents published Monday, the task force indicated it will vote Saturday to recommend the state of California officially apologize […]

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Oliver Laughland in Belmopan THE GUARDIAN The prime minister of Belize, Johnny Briceño, has sharply criticised UK PM Rishi Sunak’s refusal to apologise for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, and said it was “quite likely” Belize would be the next member of the Commonwealth realm to become a republic. Speaking in the country’s […]

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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS — Local chef Berecia Stapleton of Gingerland is the winner of the Nevis Tourism Authority (NTA) NICHE Culinary Scholarship at the Le Cordon Bleu London, a culinary arts institute specializing in cookery, wine and hospitality management.    The award will allow her the opportunity to sharpen her skills with 10 weeks of study […]

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Zelenskiy says Putin must face justice in The Hague WHO experts will decide on whether COVID is still an emergency, and the ECB is set to raise interest rates for a seventh time. Plus, we take a look inside a Kenyan starvation cult and its tragic end TODAY’S TOP STORIES Zelenskiy delivers a speech titled […]

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President Xi Jinping is supercharging efforts to rival the most powerful currency in the world. China is pushing through deals linked to the yuan as it seeks to circumvent US attempts to weaponize the dollar. Agreements to transact some payments in the Chinese currency from Saudi Arabia, Brazil and even France have been signed in […]

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The Caribbean nation plans on removing King Charles as head of state by 2025 Ellen Mauro, Mia Sheldon · CBC News ·  Jahmar Clarke, left, plays dominoes with two friends at a bar in Kingston, Jamaica. He is one of many people in Jamaica CBC News talked to who said it’s time for their country […]

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by Josimar Scott (Jamaica Observer)   Prime Minister Andrew Holness has signaled the intentions of the Government to integrate nuclear energy in the country’s energy mix. Speaking at the opening ceremony of Expo Jamaica 2023 last week Thursday, April 28, 2023, the prime minster revealed that already he had spoken to the International Atomic Energy […]

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Analysis by Tara John and Karol Suarez, CNN CNN  —  Ecuador was known as the “isla de paz” – an island of peace – in the 1980s, when compared to its neighbors Colombia and Peru, some of the world’s biggest producers of cocaine. But a deadly escalation of violence has upended that reputation in past […]

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